When you drag on a speed bump it is usually hitting
the exhaust. Many after market units hang lower than
stock. You can try to mount your exhaust closer to the
floor of the car and this will help. Also, if the
spees bum has a break in it for draining, I just line
that up with the exhaust.
I have a friend that built a cobra kit car. He lives
in a townhome community. One day he woke up to find
that they had raised all of the speedbumps and he
could not get out of his developement. It took about a
week to get them lowered again...
--- Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com> wrote:
> I too hate the damn things, and in my business I
> am required from time
> to time to have them installed on properties my
> company manages. The
> plastic "removable" ones are bad news, as they are
> steep and severe on
> cars, and they get dislodged which tears holes in
> the paving. The
> asphalt bumps can be made so that they are not as
> steep, but it's the
> height that snags my MGs. Neither type does much to
> slow the people whom
> one wants to slow.
> There is another type of speed control that does
> seem to work better to
> control speeds, yet doesn't rack up the cars. It's
> like a raised sidewalk
> crossing the road, about six inches high, ramped up
> to a three or
> four-foot wide sidewalk, then down the other side.
> These are easy to run
> up on, but driving over fast launches the car
> skyward, so nobody does it
> a second time. They don't just bump up the wheels
> and rip off the
> exhaust. Alas, as they are more than just a simple
> strip of paving, they
> cost lots more, so are infrequently used.
> Bob
>
>
> On Fri, 5 May 2000 11:19:25 -0700 "Dave Wood"
> <djw69@idt.net> writes:
> > Does anyone besides me hate those damn speed
> bumps. I crawl over
> > them and
> > still drag most of the time. Perhaps there is
> some really rough
> > sandpaper
> > that we could put on the bottom of our B at the
> low spots and
> > gradually sand
> > down the bumps as be scrape over them. Any
> suggestions?
> >
> > Dave 72 B
> >
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